Yes this is another pick your own post. All this unusual stuff to select and pick is a bit of a novelty for a Brit previously restricted to strawberries and the odd goosegog. A clever idea on behalf of the farmers wanting to make good use of the odd spare corner of land. Very trusting they are too, leaving knives and scissors for cutting purposes, and a tin pot for payment. I am not sure that would happen at home. And you see these fields everywhere in bloom throughout the year, from the first daffodils to the last sunflowers.
The Small People frequently ask whether they can stop and pick a bunch or two, and as I effectively get to reap the rewards, I am hardly going to say no now am I?
Pumpkins next. Can’t wait!
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I like this idea but you are right, it wouldn’t work here. I suspect it’s the German trait to do the correct thing that makes it work, whereas the British trait is not as honest.
I think people would want it to work in the UK, but I bet someone would let the side down :/ Not to say I only look through rose tinted specs over here but when it comes to stuff like that, no-one tends to touch it!
What a lovely idea
Isn’t it? Although they are likely to be covered in snow when you are here! xx
I think this is a lovely idea. I think it could work in the UK, some villages have honesty boxes where people can pay for fruit and vegetables.
Thank you! I love the colours on the drive to school!
My mum occasionally sells eggs from their hens and they leave an honesty box out, but they live close to the road and people are less likely to take I suppose. If I were a farmer in England, I would give it a try! Always the optimist! :)
What a fabulous idea! To create your own bunch makes it so interesting, so much choice.
We have lots of roadside honesty boxes for fruit and veg round our way but I think our Health and Safety people wouldn’t be keen on leaving knives and scissors out.
Nope, you are probably right about the knives! Mr R reminded this morning of when we last went strawberry picking in the UK. All boots of cars had to be searched on the way out in case anyone “forgot about anything”… :D
That is so lovely that you can pick flowers, I wish you could do that here.
We picked raspberries, redcurrants and blackcurrants last week which was fun, but I just couldn’t stop the kids munching as they went round :-)
Thanks Emma :) A real opening in the market perhaps? Love passing these fields, always so colourful!
What a gorgeous idea – I would so be picking those flowers. I’m beginning to quite like the idea of living in Bavaria!
Thank you! It’s not bad most of the time :D
I love it and would stop by too if there were one here! We run our farm shop the same way, the door is always open and our guests just help themselves and leave us a note in the book, for things that need paying for and settle up at the end of the week. If you trust people they respect you for it. Good to see it happens elsewhere too and flower picking has longer lasting benefits than fruit picking! Thanks for sharing on Country Kids.
Maybe you could do some sunflowers or something in a little corner? :) I think that it’s so nice that you have an honesty policy like that. I think at home most people think it would be abused so don’t bother, but I think benefit of the doubt is the way to go :)
I pass a house every day where the front garden is full of potted plants – flowers, vegetables; and little bags of seeds and berries and potatoes. All for sale, and with just a tin can for money. So Britain isn’t doing so badly on the honesty front :)
That’s so nice… I guess I was thinking of more commercial land rather than the home grown stuff, where farmers want to make a profit for something and a little pot is just left in the middle of a field at the side of a road! It’s nice to hear that trust is still happening! :)
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